Track and Field Roundup: 4-12-08

D'BACKS EXCEL AT ARCADIA INVITE: At Arcadia, the Serrano cross country team had a good showing this weekend at the prestigious Arcadia Invitational.

The Diamondbacks' girls kicked it off on Friday with three strong performances in relays. In the 4x800 meters, the Serrano team of Lauren Minnick, Brooke Smith, Dani Henry and Charlette Buchan was 13th in the invitational heat, the highest-level heat at the event, with a time of 10 minutes, 7.74 seconds.

The sprint medley team of Katie Pound, Christa Bowers, Buchan and Minnick was seventh in the seeded race with a time 4:24.74.

Henry, Jessica Feuerstine, Natasha Coe and Cassie Green was 13th out of 29 teams in the 4x1-mile relay seeded race with a time of 22:16.24.

On the boys side, Jamaal Franklin competed in the open heat of the high jump and finished sixth with a mark of 6 feet, 2 inches.

On Saturday, the girls distance medley team (Minnick, Feuerstine, Henry and Buchan) was 12th out of 24 teams in the seeded race at 13:03.45.

Kauren Tarver ran the invitational heat of the 3,200 meters and took 11th place out of 23 runners with a time of 10:41.5, which broke a 21-year-old school record.